What have we learnt, from all our European studies? That we’re unworthy of them, our European studies. That the UK soul is ultimately allergic to everything European.
That we don’t have the depths, the quality of despair, of our European studies! That we don’t have the history. We haven’t been invaded over and again. Fascism never flourished on our soul. Communism! Liberal philosophy is a contradiction in terms. Our culture’s superficial …
We’re not … intellectuals: that’s what we’ve learnt. We can’t call ourselves intellectuals. Let alone philosophers. Or European philosophers!
Work in Progress 